Former school posted a "top 10 list" and my results where omitted. Do I do anything or just let it go?

Ugh...this is obviously a former collegiate posting about track times. University lists should be accurate. This guy is not claiming a relay record or a time trial record, but about legitimate performances.

Just send an email with a scanned copy of the results to the coach. As a collegiate coach myself I would want to know, and want the lists at my institution to be accurate.

I hate it when I see top 10 lists for DI schools with no marks older that 15 years old. When you see that you know the record keeping was shody.

Contact the coach. It’s motivating for the kids, it’s exciting to set goals of making the list, it’s also fun for alums to compare how they rank.

Reach out on social media to former athletes to try and get times, meets, names, pictures. Reach out to long time coaches at other schools and see if they remember former standouts from your school.

Biggest pet peeve: new coach says Johnny ran 4:30 and got the school 1600 record. Mile record is 4:28 from 1985.

For the OP, I agree with what many have said here.

Go ahead and contact your school, and absolutely send in any articles that document your efforts.

Many years ago in the dark ages before the internet, I helped put together the "top 10" lists for our college. We knew results were missing, and appreciated alumni writing in to help us fill the blanks - particularly if they had copies of old results. It turns out our school records at common events like the 5 and 10 had been incorrect for several years; we had gone thru multiple head coaching changes in a short amount of time, and no one had bothered to update even the school records for 3-4 years. Without help from the alum's, we wouldn't have come anywhere close to getting things right.

Accuracy is a good thing and it's easy to provide documentation. No coach is likely to go though microfiche files from the '70s and '80s looking for fast times so it would be helpful to receive the info from alumni.

I disagree. Kids for many years to come will look at the list and try to get on it. Might as well make it as accurate as possible.

random guy with a question wrote:

Looking around and checked my former schools website. The long time coach was replaced and a new coach came in. The new coach added a top 10 times list.

My results were omitted. It appears a several year span is missing. So there are really old times and some more recent times but the results for when I went to that university are missing.

As this has been several years ago, do I do anything? Or just let it go and move on in life.

The fact that you posted shows that you have not let it go. My answer to you is, "Who Cares?"

I and most runners would not want to make it onto an inaccurate list. So, for their sake as well as yours, update the coach. Send the proof. Trouble is there may be other omissions. You know yours (and of your time period).

Send a copy of any results you have that the coach could be missing.

Also, send a donation to the team.

Let it go boomer. No one cares.

If you have a school record or state record, it is okay to want the data to be correct. Top ten performances? It is not worth the fight. One looks silly arguing about a top ten time.

really dude wrote:

Let it go, move one.

I agree. Go sit on the toilet and move one.

I partially agree ... wrote:

If you have a school record or state record, it is okay to want the data to be correct. Top ten performances? It is not worth the fight. One looks silly arguing about a top ten time.

I held my school record in the 10k for a number of years in the 1980s. The school participated in a 10k race for the first time ever when I was a sophomore, and I was the first guy in among the 3 that took a crack at it. The 2 other guys were DNF. There is no documentation. For all I know, it still stands. No one knows. No one cares. Except me, of course.

If the new coach cared enough to compile these lists than he would appreciate people informing him of marks that aren't included and knowing where he is wrong.

I had a similar issue and suggest you handle as follows: Reach out to current coach once and only once in writing re: correction with as many details as possible. No proof needed though if you don't have it. Funny thing is that some stat geek alumnus had already contacted the coach about my times (and others). If the coach cares, they will confirm the mark(s) and update. If not, it's now on them. I agree that accuracy and completeness are what's important here. Does not matter whether your time is #1 or #10.

Seems like a lot of these errors are because of pre/post-internet stat keeping.

random guy with a question wrote:

Looking around and checked my former schools website. The long time coach was replaced and a new coach came in. The new coach added a top 10 times list.

My results were omitted. It appears a several year span is missing. So there are really old times and some more recent times but the results for when I went to that university are missing.

As this has been several years ago, do I do anything? Or just let it go and move on in life.

Are you still involved as an alumni. If no, I would let it go.

If yes I would mention it to the coach. Preferably in some non-threatening way at either an alumni event or some other appropriate event. I don't know what university does not know it's own school record history, I would think any D1 school would have this nailed down. It's not a good thing for the program if they just omitted an entire time period from the record books and I wouldn't be happy if my school made this mistake.

Inform the compiler the time and date and place . Have as much documentation, references, etc as possible. Make sure you have your time exactly right. In my opinion, ignore those who say let it go. What’s the point of a list if it doesn’t matter. If u can make it more accurate, then follow through. If the compiler doesn’t care or refuses to try to verify, then they are the wrong person for the job. Why make a hall of fame list if u don’t care about its accuracy.

op, as a coach who has put in a considerable amount of time updating and verifying school record lists and top ten lists, I would 100% appreciate if somebody came to me with corrections for my program's lists. That said, verification would be necessary. Newspaper or online results. If all you have is a date, maybe records could be dug up? people tend to have bad memories for exact times and years. Verification is 100% needed.

Contact the program with your information. 10000%